Count de Rochambeau
Birth: 1725
Death: 1807
Occupation: General
A hero of the American War of Independence, Rochambeau was supportive of the early Revolution and he was made a Marshal of France in 1791. He resigned after several defeats to the Austrians in 1792, and was then arrested during the Terror.
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Appears in these Letters:
1792
25 May: Revolutionary France Faces Military Disaster
After much triumphalist rhetoric in Parisian political circles ahead of France's declaration of war against Austria on 20 April 1792, the harsh...
